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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
SLAVES TO DRESS.
A Plea for Sensible, Comfortable Gar
ments.

A Plea for Sensible, Comfortable Gar
ments.
The advice to women to promote
their health by outdoor exercise is
never wanting But no amount of
fresh-air exercise can save women
from the evil effects of their present
style of dress. 1t is their clothes that
kill them.
Every step woman takes, her foot
contends with her skirt. She lifts it
on the instep, and she lifts it on the
heel. The weight may be ounces or
pounds, but it is taken up at every
step. The heavy skirts, with hounces,
overskirt, hustle, braid, beads and 9th
er trimmings, hang their many pounds
and many yards, tapping around the
feet and legs of the wearer. The cor
set does not allow space to take a full
breath, and the tight sleeves cause the
muscles to cry for room.
Dressed in this fashion, the wearer
comes back from her walk for 'fresh
air and exercise" tired through and
through, and is the worse for it, be-
cause she has lifted and carried hun
dreds of pounds.
Stand at any city street-corner, and
watch the women as they pass How
tired they look! How their dresses
flap round them! Contrast them with
the men. Mems feet lift no weight of
clothes. Mems steps contend with
nothing Every muscle has its natural
exercise. Outdoor air and exercise
are good for them.
The advice women need is for
shorter, lighter and looser dresses
Mrs. Jenness- Miller has not come a
day too soor with her better costume,
if the health of women is to be i'm
proved. Mrs. Celia B. Whitehead has
shown whats the matter" Before
her, Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, nearly
forty years ago, set the example OF
short, loose dresses.
That style was adopted by many
women, among them Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthony,
and the present writer. How light
and comfortable and neat it was! How
easily we went up stairs without STEP
ping on ourselves! How we came
down stairs without fear of being
stepped on! A walk on rainy day
or in muddy street had no terror,
for there were no yards of draggled
skirts to clean. We had room to
breathe, and freedom for our feet.
But this healthful dress was "despised
and rejected" by the great public. On
one occasion, Miss Anthony, in compa.
ny with me, started to 60 to the post
office in New York, in the BloomeI
costume, But we were surrounded
and wedged in by crowd which hoot-
ed and jeered. We escaped only by q
carriage sent by friend who saw oul
dilemma.
1t was so difficult to wear this dress
with the odium that was cast upon it
that we returned sorrowfully to thu
bondage of our bodies for the sake o
freedom to live unmolested. That wa
long ago. Now women might accep
the light, sensible dress which Mrs
Jenness Miller wears and commends
without fear of unpleasant comment
In it they may take fresh air and exer
oise, and gain in health. .--L'tcy Stone.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
THE BABY.

The little tot'ring baby feet
With faltering steps and slow,
With pattering echoes soft and sweet
Into my heart they go;
They also go, in grimy plays,
In muddy pools and dusty ways,
Then through the house in trackful maze
They wander to and fro.
The baby hands that clasp my neck.
With touches dear to me,
Are the same hands that smash and wrech
The inkstand foul to see;
They pound the mirror with a cane.
They rend the manuscript in twain,
Widespread destruction they ordain
In wasteful jubilee.
The dreamy, murm'ring baby voice
That coos its little tune,
That makes my listening heart rejoice
Like birds in leafy June,
Can wake at midnight dark and still.
And all the air with bowling fill,
That splits the ear with echoes shrill.
Like cornets out OF tune.
r. J. Bardette, in BROOKLYN Eaole.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
A Wonderful Woman.

Miss Mary Murfree is a perpetual
surprise. Every body has grown ac-
customed to the fact that Charles Egg
bert Craddock is woman, but nobody
who met the fragile, pale-faced. lame
girl during her recent flying visit to
New York found it easily possible to
understand how such a quiet little
creature who was obliged to sit to re-
ceive her guests could have obtained
such a mountaineer's familiarity with
the rocks aad the trees Of the Tennes-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
Took a Change of Venue.

Gilhooly was standing in front of his
clearinghouse, when a small boy with
bill came up and asked if Gilhooly
was in.
"Just you 60 up those stairs and
look carefully in that room, and if you
don't see him in that room he is out. "
When he got back Gilhooly had TAX
en- a change of venue to an adjoining
county, where the prejudice against
him was not 50 strong. Teras SII-
iR0s.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15

awful lot shall fall-on US or on our
neighbors-is, for many VI us,
question still undecided; but on
them or on us we know the curse
must surely come, and a remnant
only shall be saved. What wonder
is it, then, that, like panic-stricken
men upon a sinking ship, who know
Of surety that there is room in the
boats for but one in hundred, we
should struggle and fight and crowd?
What wonder that we should fling
to the winds honor, and fair dealing,
and loving kindness, and all the
Christ-like virtues? What wonder
that Jacob Sharp should have bribed
the aldermen, and thought it but the
purchase of an honorable provision
for his children? b
Our courts and newspapers and
preachers may make an end of Jacob
Sharp; the individual. They can
never, by their present methods, an
make end of the class to which Jacob
Sharp belongs. To put an end to
stealing we must dig mp stealing at
the root.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
HE WAS FIRED OUT.

A Los Angeles, Cal, correspondent
of The Detroit Free Preis writes:1
had kind Of n time attending 10
divine service the other day. Down
at one end of street stands an old
Spanish mission church. 1t was
built about the year A. ID. and is
now sufficiently decayed. / hapen
ed to be down that way, and was at
tracted by the chime of two bells
whose soulful music floating out over
the busy city called the worshiper
to theholy edifice and spoiled tn sale
of surrounding property. The bells
were also cracked. Isaid to myself:
'Ha! / will go to this church with
these deqout believers. Woat honor
to sit among the descendants of the
Montezumas! 1t is there shall find
the true spirit of worship So ] rev
erently stepped over to the remains.
"The dark skinned nobility was
gathering. 1t was dressed in all the
royal colors, such as green and vel
low, purple and pink, and all these
unique combinations of shade and
design as are permitted only to the
royal blood. 1t had jewelry in its
ears and no socks. ! was impress
ed. / said: i will not deign to en-
ter at the front door with these Az
tee kings and queens. No, my place
is the side door and the back seats
among the jacks and spots.
So i went around to the plebeian
side where there was a smaller door.
The citizens had by this time killed
the bell-ringer, and his fugue was
for the present hushed a solemn
stiffness was all that broke the sill
ence. Devoutly i entered.
Man is the victim Of. circnm-
stances. He cannot look ahead into
the dim future any more than he can
int his opponents hand. He doesn't
know whether life contains for him
four acres or bob.tailed flush.
that is why he makes mistakes and
gets mixed up.
Sand so it was in the case before
us. When | got inside that door !
landed gayly right into the midst
of three or four mikados who were
conductin' the meetin'. Ny recol
lection of the events following is that
for about quarter OF second We
fred back and forth at each orEer
chunks of glad surprise; that some.
body murmured h-ll!!;;' that the
deacons reached for religious bric.a
brac, and that just as ] got outside
the door again candlestick whack
ed out panel. Then l found my
self out in the cold world, looking
for a good place to hide. / now at
tend divine service in an other part
OF town."
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
SANDWICH ISLAND SUGAR
COMING EAST.
Philadelphia Record.

More than 100000 pounds of
Hawaiian sugar has left San Fran
cisco for New York and Philadel-
plM markets within the last ten
days, causing considerable excite
ment in trade circles. The move
ment is believed to be primarily the
outcome of fight between the two
refining companies on the Pacific
coast, which are adopting this meth
cd to work off surplus stock and adj
vance the prices of sugar on the
Pacific coast. Several cargoes have
been shipped from San Francisco to
New York by water, while large
quantities are also being sent by the
Canadian Pacific road, keeping as far
as possible from roads working under
the Interstate Commerce law. All
the consignments are of the refined
article, and much of it will be mar
keted IN the West, which is now
supplied by the Philadelphia and
New York refneries.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
JACOB SHARP.
Y. Y. Standard.

Jacob Sharp has been convicted,
and unquestionably justly convict
ed. And yet is impossible to resist
n feeling of something like sympathy
for him, since the crime for which
he must now 90 to the state prison
is simply what in hundreds of cases
brings wealth, ease and honor.
Jacob Sharp is in truth more
victim than criminal victim of
a rotten state of society-a victim Of
that greed of gain born of the fear
of want, which sanctifies the getting
of wealth by any means, provided
the successful man can only keep
out OF the penitentiary. That he
will not be able to keep out of the
penitentiary is owing to what doubt
less seems to him like series of
accidents, and not that he is in re-
alitv a sinner above other men who
are to day accounted our ''first citi
zens."
Jacob Sharp was an enterprising
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15

No good Catholic will follow Dr.
McGlynn after he has been excom-
mnnicated.
The n. Y. Times said:
DR.. McGlynn's fate was brought
on by himself. He invited it, and
has nobody but himself to blame.
Commenting on these and like ut
terances, the Standard says:
The truth is, that if there are in
the United States any Catholics so
ignorant and superstitious as journ-
ais like the Post and Times fondly
imagine all Catholics TO be, they are
already on the side of Corrigan, and
not of McGlynn. Upon the Catho-
lies who have supported DR.. Nc
Glynn, and who have resented the
attempt to control their politics
through their religion, the eXcom-
munication upon which Tammany
hall and the pro poverty press are
counting so much will have no more
effect than the apocryphal "hull
against the comet" unless it be to
make them take a more determined
stand.
The Catholic faith, in which so
many wise and just and trne men
have believed and yet believe is, no
matter how much craft may have
sought to use it to impose on ignor-
ance, something more than an Afrl-
can voodooism vanished with Il
gloss of Christian names and phra-
ses. And whatever may have been
the beliefs entertained in places or
times of general ignorance and su
perstition, the intelligent American
Catholics who are standing side by
side with DR.. McGlynn do not be.
lieve it is within the power of arch
bishop, propaganda or pope to really
cut either him or them off from the
church because they refuse to take
their politics from Italy.
But this the accommodation
will do: 1t will convince such Cath
olics that system of church gov
ernment which deprives the people
of all choice of their priest, and de
prives the priests of all choice OF
their bishop, and concentrates all
the power of the organization in the
hands of a self-perpetuating ring OF
Italians, is a disgrace to the church
and scandal aud injury to true re-
ligion.
DR.. McGlynn is to be excommu
nicated. What for? Because he
has been negligent of his priestly
duty? Because he has been unseemly
in his life or impure in his conver
sation? Because he has denied any
article of faith taught by the churchi
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15

Square, will run half the distance to
the water line with moderate de-
scent, when there will be q sharper
descent, in order to get under the
river, at a grade of 3 feet to the 100.
Engineers who have examined the
location for these tunnels state that
there will betwelve feet ofsiltor river
muck on top of them, and that they
could stand pressure four times as
great as this will be. The tunnels
proper will be $500 feet in length,
and with the approaches on both
the New York and Jersey City sides
there will be a total length of frac
tion less than two and one half
miles.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
THE DIR. McGLYNN ISSUE.
We thus condense the leading edi-
torial in the last n. T. Standard:

We thus cOndenSe the leadlng eul-
torial in the last n. T. Standard:
The immediate cause of DR.. Nc
Glynn's accommodation is his re-
fusal to take his political orders
from his archbishop; his assertion
that in becoming priest he did not
evade the duties nor surrender the
rights of man and citizen, and
his denial of the authority of bish-
op, propaganda or pope to order
him to Italy to answer for his acts
in American politics or. his opinions
in political economy. 1t is virtually
a declaration, not from the highest
authority in the Catholic Church,
but from the controlling power in
the ecclesiastical machine" that
even in the United States the Cath
Ollie priest must be political serf of
a superior who owes his appoint
ment to self-perpetuating Italian
ring, constantly engaged in schemes
for selling out to the people whom
they thus control to their oppres-
sOrS.
There is nothing in this eeclesl-
astical outlawry Of the best known
and best loved of American priests
to shake the belief of Catholics in
the true essentials of the Catholic
faith, but there is in it decisive
proof to the intelligent and devout
Catholic that the organization of
his church has fallen into the hands
of machine which is determined to
use it for base and selfish purposes.
There is nothing in it to show the
nom Catholic that the Catholic re-
ligion is in Itself inconsistent with
political liberty and human prog
ress, but it is the strongest demon
stration that the ecclesiasticism
which, in the name of religion, i'm
poses its fetters upon ignorance and
superstition. and which in this cOun-
try seeks the allianceI of bosses, as
in Europe it does that of kings, is
the deadly foe of civil as Of religious
liberty.
Archbishop Corrigan, in insisting
upon the implicit political obedi-
ence of his priests, had probably at
first nothing larger in view than the
use of his ecclesiastical power as his
allies, the Tammany bosses, use po-
litical patronage; and in sustaining
him by communicating DR.. Nc
Glynn the Italian cardinals have
doubtless had primarily in view the
maintenance of the political control
of their subjects" as necessary to
the game they are playing in Euro
pean diplomacy. But beyond all,
this accommodation is the culmi
mating proof that | was right when,
in the first issue OF this paper, l
said that American workingmen
might as well make up their minds
that in their fight for the enfranchise
ment of labor they must meet the
opposition Of the Catholic hierar
chy.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
LESSONS FOR FAMILY PEACE.

First-We must be quite sure
that our will is likely to be crossed
to-day, so prepare for it.
Second--Everybody in the house
has an evil nature as well as our
selves, and therefore, we are not to
expect too much.
Third-Learn the different temper
Of each individual.
Fourth-When any good happens
to any one. rejoice at it,.
Fifth-When inclined to give an
angry answer, count ten.
Sixth-If from sickness, pain or
infrmity we feel irritable, keep o
very strict watch over ourselves.
Seventh-Obserye when others are
SO suffering, and drop word of
kindness and sympathy suited 10
their wants.
Eighth-Watch for little oppor
tunities of pleasing, and put little
annoyances out Of the way.
Ninth-Take a cheerful view Of
everything.
Tcnth-In all little pleasures
which may occur. put self last
Eleventh-Try for the soifanswer
that ''turneth away wrath
Twelfth-When we have been
panied by an unkind word or deed.
ask ourselves: "Have | not often
done the same and been forgiven
Tbirteenth-In conversation 10
not exalt yourselves, but bring others
forward.
Fourteenth-Be very gentle with
the younger ones and treat them with
respect.
Fifteenth-Neyer judge one anoili :
er. but attribute a good motive when
possible.
Sixteenth-Compare our manifold
blessings with the triliing annoyan.
es Of the day.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
TONEW YORK
RAILROADS TO ENTER THE CITY
UNDER THE NORTH RIVER.
A Mammoth Underground Terminal that
Will be Centrally Located--The Cost
Estimated at $II, ,ooo, 900.

The Importance of reaching the
central portion of New York city as
q terminal has long been recognized
BY the managers of the different rail
road lines now entering Jersey City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad manage
ment has for years given the subject
serious attention and has examined
many plans. \ bridge across the
Hudson River Was seriously discus
sed, but the project was met with so
mauy objections that it has been
abandoned. The greatest objection
10 bridge was that it would inter
fere with the commerce of New \ Iork,
and that it would involve too great
an expense to obtain such terminals
in New York city as would be need
ed
The New York Central Railroad
Company, it is declared, because of
the attention it is now paying to pas
senger travel and having a depot in
New York city, is securing larger
portion of the passenger business out
of that city. Travellers, it is said,
are averse to crossing on the ferries,
and TO avoid doing so take the New
York Central. There is, in addition
to this, considerable time to be say
ed in having terminals in New York
city by avoiding the innumerable in
conveniences involved in rehandling
baggage and changing the passen-
gers from the boats to the cars, with
out taking into consideration the Sc
rious delays ferry-boats are subject
to and the possibilities of frequent
accidents. All of these questions
have been duly weighed by the man
agement of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, and have quickened
it into action To secure some better
means of reaching the great metrOp-
oils upon the opposite side of the
river. The plan which has been pro
posed of taking the passengers over
the top of the ferry-house at Jersey
CITY upon boats with a double deck,
and over the top of the ferry-house
ON the New York side, and by
bridge to the eastern side of West
street, and thence to connect with
branches of the Manhattan Elevated
Road, is declared to be only tempo
rary arrangement.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
No One Need
Remain
A Dyspeptic.

Il have been suffering for over
two years with Dyspepsia. For
the last year l could not take n
drink of cold water nor eat any
meat without vomiting it up.
My life was 4 misery. / had
had recommended Simmons
Liver Regulator, of which ! am
now taking the second bottle,
and the fact is that words can
not express the relief l feel. My
appetite is very good, and j di-
sest everything thoroughly. |
sleep we'll now. and | used 90 be
vcrv restless. am lieShing up
fast: goal. strong fool and
Simmons Liver Regulator have
d1ac il ali. write this in
hopes OF bcncdtiag some one
who has suffered as ! did, and
would take oath to these state
ments, if desired.
+. :. BALLOU, Syracuse. Neb.
Genuine has Il in red on front o
wrapper. Best guarantee Tor tn
'uyer.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
WHAT THE WORK WILL COST.

The first estimate made Of the cost
of this work was placed at $20,000,.
600, but this contemplated the pur
chase of considerable more real es-
tate in New York than the present
plan does. The latest estimate, and
that under which the work will be
done, puts the total cost Of the ope-
ration at $l1, 100000, divided as fol-
lows: Upon the tunnels, SO, 900, 900;
land and streets in New York for
terminals, $3,000,000, and for termi-
nails, $5,000,000. The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in preparing for
this new work has given considera-
BILE attention to excavation and tun.
mel work, and, it is reported, has had
an expert abroad examining all the
important tunnels in England, France
and Spain, including those under the
Thames and Bristol Channel and the
st. GoGhard and Mount Cenis tun-
nels. The following important tun-
nels in this county were also exam
ined: Webster, on the Susquehanna
and Albany Railroad near Bingham
ton, n. Y, nearly $500 feet long and
having only single track; the
Kingswood tunnel, on the main stem
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
400 feet long; Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Great Bend tunnel, $500
feet long; Delaware and Lackawan
na tunnel at Bergen Hills, 1000 feet
in length; Pennsylvania Railroad
tunnell at Gallitzin, 5000 feet, and
the Southern Pacific tunnel near
Los Angeles, 1000 feet in length.
The Hoosac tunuel was also given
considerable attention.
1t is stated that between $1,000
900 and $4.000,000 of the money to
be raised by the Pennsylvania Rail
road allotment of stock will be ap-
piled in this way. The money for
the remainder of the work can be
easily raised. The time for complet-
ing the entire operation, it is esti-
mated, will be over two years.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
AN UNDERGROUND DEPOT.

The plan contemplates terminals
under Washington Square in New
York city ut depth OF fifteen feet
below the eart'i's surface, which will
occupy an area of over an acre in
space. This will be illuminated by
electricity and furnished with every
convenience and comfort for travel
ers. 1t is further stated that there
will be handsome entrances from the
streets, and that considerable prop
erty is to be bought above ground
in connection with the work. There
will be elevators to the streets above
and broad staircases, and the elevat-
ed railroads will run branch lines to
the depot.
In addition to the large extent to
which the tunnels will be used by
the railroad companies for the con-
venience of their regular passenger
business it is also intended to put on
trains exclusively for the large local
travel between New York and Jer
sey City. Last year the number of
passengers taken by ferry from New
York to Jersey City and in the other
direction amounted to so, 100000, and
of this number one-third were pas
sengers carried for railroads.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15

1t is not what COWS can be made
to do in brief tests, or in spurts,
that counts for profit. 1t is the
''long haul at the milk pail and
churn that determines just how val
liable a COW or dairy herd may be to
the owner. j. c. McClintock, of
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, made
4,097 pounds of butter from thirteen
pure bred Jersey cows in the year
ending April l, 1SS7-an average of
a little over 315 pounds per cow.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-15
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